Harry Maas (1906-1982) - Aankleden

Maas, H.F.H. ('Harry')
Nederweert 1906-1982 Eindhoven

Harrie Maas has nurtured a passion for drawing and painting from an early age. In Roermond he received his first lessons from M.G. Hölscher and in Nijmegen from Anton Kloosterhuis. After the family moved in July 1931 to Eindhoven, he further developed himself and joined the Kunst-Broeders at the Eindhovense Schetsclub. For decades he was the driving force of this club. He exhibited his work mainly in group exhibitions of Kunstkring In Consten Een, Eindhovense Schetsclub, De Zuid-Nederlandsche Onafhankelijken, Bredasche Kunstkring and Kunstkring De Kempen after World War II. After 1950 he scarcely exhibited any more. By then he had already built up a circle of admirers and through established art dealers his work found its way to buyers. In 1974 he married Netty Michels in Nijmegen, who with her narrative little paintings in a naïve painting style has enjoyed success. In the thirties, Harry Maas gained recognition as a draughtsman and painter of portraits and figure pieces. In addition, he produced linocuts and began etching. Around the wartime period he painted many (flower) still lifes. Around 1950, inspired by travels to England and France, many cityscapes and landscapes arose. His passion for trains has a fixed place in his oeuvre, where he often revisits nostalgic imagery and, for the furnishings as in his cityscapes, he chooses fashionably dressed, graceful girls. Female beauty, half-dressed or coquettishly nude, runs like a red thread through his work, and the numerous finished or sketchy nudes of (school)girls posing for him have brought him wide fame. Literature: Harry Maas "Painter of the City Life and Female Beauty" Peter Thoben, Pieter Scheen.

Representation: Standing half-naked.
Visible size 29X25CM in very good condition, the frame is new and is included free with the work.

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